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千 (qiān): thousand

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Pinyin
Meaning: thousand
Characters: 1
Part of speech: number
HSK level: HSK 1
Strokes: 3
Radical: 十
Structure: 上下结构

Full definitions

thousand
used in 鞦韆|秋千[qiu1 qian1]
used in 秋千 (qiūqiān, swing)

Chinese explanation

数字，表示十个一百，也就是一千
常用来表示数量很多，比如成千上万
也用作姓氏。

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This book has a thousand pages.

He can memorize over a hundred words a day, truly having a thousand-character memory.

Be sure to pay attention to safety.

From a thousand mountains, the birds in flight have vanished; on ten thousand paths, traces of humans have disappeared.

The swing swung very high.

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